Quotes of: Poe Keyword

A likely impossibility is always preferable to an unconvincing possibility. The story should never be made up of improbable incidents; there should be nothing of the sort in it.

Poetics

They are fond of fun and therefore witty, wit being well-bred insolence.

The Rhetoric & The Poetics of Aristotle

Give me your skin as sheer as a cobweb, let me open it up and listen in and scoop out the dark.

Transformations

...pretention is very close to stupidity and that simplicity has a less visible but still gratifying aspect.

Time Regained

The Americans won't win. They're not fighting for their homeland. They just want to be good. In order to be good, they just have to fight awhile and then leave.

Tree of Smoke

This is how you get unstuck. You reach.

Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar

I’d Poe’s nude for the approval of a dead poet. No names come to mind, but I’m sure there must be one I’d get naked for.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

No neurotic harbors thoughts of suicide which are not murderous impulses against others redirected upon himself.

Totem and Taboo

Creatures whose mainspring is curiosity enjoy the accumulating of facts far more than the pausing at times to reflect on those facts.

This Simian World

one of the best and the most painful things about time traveling has been the opportunity to see my mother alive.

The Time Traveler's Wife

...all of our laments could not add a single second to her life, not one additional beat of the heart, nor a breath.

The Time Traveler's Wife

But now, I know, how absence can be present, like a damaged nerve, like a dark bird.

The Time Traveler's Wife

Right now we are here, and nothing can mar our perfection, or steal the joy of this perfect moment.

The Time Traveler's Wife

I never understood why Clark Kent was so hell bent on keeping Lois Lane in the dark.

The Time Traveler's Wife

Elle est retrouvée! Quoi? -l'Éternité. C'est la mer allée Avec le soleil.

Une saison en enfer; Illuminations; et autres textes

It isn’t true, is it, Daniel, that music can tame the beasts? Yet, in the end, a song lives.

The Violin of Auschwitz

She had not character enough to take to drinking, and moaned about, slip-shod and in curl-papers, all day.

Vanity Fair

Amazed, Fat said, "She's decomposing and yet she's still giving birth?" "Only to monsters," Dr. Stone said.

VALIS

They ought to make it a binding clause that if you find God you get to keep Him.

VALIS

This is a mournful discovery. 1)Those who agree with you are insane 2)Those who do not agree with you are in power.

VALIS

It is proper that technically qualified non-lunatics should sit in judgement on lunatics. How could things be otherwise?

VALIS